Benoit wants to: “strengthen Economic and Monetary Union in order to increase its resilience to economic shocks.”

“The time has come to initiate a new economic convergence process, thus relaunching the convergence efforts that each euro area country agreed to prior to adopting the single currency”

“Political convergence is a necessary condition for economic convergence, as it implies making economic and fiscal policy a shared competence in the same manner as policies relating to the internal market.”

This economic convergence process could include a timeline and clearly defined milestones, and would ultimately bring about deeper integration in the fiscal sphere and the creation of shared fiscal tools. The management of these tools, including the European Stability Mechanism, could be entrusted to a euro area treasury that is accountable to the European Parliament.

The Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy – Leaked Proposal for a European Army May 27 2016

Federica Mogherini, EU’s foreign policy chief, foresees development of new European military headquarters and operational structures

Using mechanisms set up in the Lisbon Treaty

Similar proposals for an EU army were vetoed by Britain in 2011

New proposal kept secret until the day after the EU referendum

Kept secret because they knew the British would object

They claim this is not an attempt to set up an EU army

Former defence chief Lord Guthrie has changed to leave out of fear of this army

He called it a threat to NATO and a vanity project

“There’s a feeling that those backing the European army are doing it for political reasons rather than military ones. They want to be able to boast, ‘Look! We’ve got a European army’. That is dangerous.”

Signed Sept 2015 in Rome by the speakers of the national parliaments of Germany, France, Italy and Luxembourg

Not part of the Commission

Letter states: “We are convinced that new impetus must be given to European integration. We believe that more, not less, Europe is needed to respond to the challenges we face.”

Deeper integration “should not be limited to the field of economic and fiscal matters, or to the internal market and to agricultural policy. It should include all matters pertaining to the European ideal — social and cultural affairs as well as foreign, security and defence policy.”

The drive for the Euro has been motivated by politics not economics. The aim has been to link Germany and France so closely as to make a future European war impossible, and to set the stage for a federal United States of Europe. I believe that adoption of the Euro would have the opposite effect. It would exacerbate political tensions by converting divergent shocks that could have been readily accommodated by exchange rate changes into divisive political issues. Political unity can pave the way for monetary unity. Monetary unity imposed under unfavorable conditions will prove a barrier to the achievement of political unity.

“I never imagined that we would ever again in an industrialised country have a depression deeper than the United States experienced in the 1930s and that’s what’s happened in Greece. It is appalling and it has happened almost as a deliberate act of policy which makes it even worse”.

Britain will be forced to adopt the Euro By Dr Andrew Lilico 01 Jul 2014

There was never intended to be any long-term form of EU membership that did not include euro membership. The UK did not say “never” to begin with, and all new EU members since the euro began in 1999 have had to commit to joining.

That means that at some point, perhaps shortly after 2020, with the Eurozone constituted as a confederate Single European State and wanting to use the institution of the EU as its institutions

current debates about whether the UK will have a referendum and how folk will vote is of only passing significance. What counts fundamentally to whether the UK stays in the EU after about 2020 is whether there are any non-euro members of the EU at all, given the existential economic necessity of the Eurozone forming into a deeper political union.

6 thoughts on “#EUref: The Sovereignty Argument for #Brexit”

One of the biggest advantages of the UK is, that they still have their own currency.
Use it wise!

Most of the No-Brexit sides arguements are just based on fear and conveninece. Most real problems that could occur are just problems which can be solved. That’s what civil servants are paid for. Therefore they should do their motherfucking job if Brexit comes true.

And on the other hand: it’s just a referendum. Even if the UK citizens vote for BREXIT the UK-parliament wouldn’t do shit. They all profit way toooooo much from the EU.

The EU has been longing for Britain’s permanent seat at the UN security council, and they’ve taken our seat at the WTO. In the long-term, they want all our seats at international organizations to be replaced by shared EU seats.